Teachable Moments: Susan B. Anthony had unflagging faith in her cause

10:06 PM,
Mar. 12, 2013

Susan B. Anthony

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"Failure is impossible," was the last public comment from Susan Brownell Anthony before she passed away on March 13, 1906, in Rochester, N.Y. She died after a lifetime of working for civil rights, temperance and women's suffrage, and 14 years before her goal would be realized.

In 1878, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the text for the 19th Amendment, which gave female U.S. citizens the right to vote. Congress finally passed it in 1919, and it was ratified on Aug. 18, 1920, when the Tennessee House of Representatives narrowly voted for ratification, 50-49 (the Senate had passed it ...